⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

@MichaelBishop Funny you say that, I was just thinking a bit nostalgically about old Yahoo and AltaVista.

There are companies that would do this for us. They would also charge us six figures to do so. We're just hobbyists. We ain't got that sort of money. Nobody's gonna drop that kind of cash just so that future generations can run Commander Keen slightly more accurately.

There are only a handful of people on the planet that are set up to do this as a hobby, and unfortunately most of them are retired from the art.

If you know anyone who can do implant ROM staining and is willing to be compensated for their time, effort, and materials, please get in touch. We have hundreds of 286's (seriously). We are willing to send them anywhere on the globe.

The Space Shuttle could hold a flying laboratory called Spacelab in its cargo bay. Three French-made computers ran Spacelab. I opened up a Spacelab computer and found that instead of a microprocessor, it is built from a multitude of simple chips. Let's take a closer look at the computer...

Toto just told Kimi to STFU on the radio for the second time.

#f1 #formula1 #canadiangp

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #microcode #reverseengineering

THIS BITMAP RUNS DOOM

I'm incredibly pleased to announce that the microcode for the Intel 80386 has been decoded.

It was a group effort by a bunch of talented people to extract and correct the physical bits, but the major work of decoding them was done by reenigne - you may know him from such incredible PC demos as 8088 MPH and Area 5150, as well as being the person who decoded the 8088 microcode previously.

Please, check out his writeup.

https://www.reenigne.org/blog/80386-microcode-disassembled/

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #microcode #reverseengineering

Access to information shouldn't be ransomed for our personal data.

We’ve gone from ID checks for porn to potentially age-gating social media, livestreams, websites and more.

Safety doesn't come from a surveillance-based Internet 🚫

Respond to the UK consultation by 26 May ➡️ https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/growing-up-in-the-online-world-a-national-consultation

#onlinesafety #ageverification #privacy #digitalID #ukpolitics #ukpol

Starship 12 recap: flight 12, with Super Heavy booster 19 and Ship 39, was launched on May 22 at 2230:20 UTC. It was the first version 3 Starship, with Raptor 3 engines. [1/n]

HP bought Hyperspace, & once offered 3 different pre-boot or in-boot OSs, including Quickweb via @lproven https://lobste.rs/s/ip7rdd #historical #retrocomputing
https://gekk.info/articles/hp-quickweb.htm

Our makerspace needs new 3D-printers. I was originaly set for #bambulab but with the apparent non respect for #GPL

Which 3D-printer should I look into? Is there any printer that does not require too much tinkering?

Budget, 600 USD/EUR
Should work with Linux, and also stuff like repetier.

Boost for reach

#3dprinting

Just had a well-timed "here we go" while pulling away from a roundabout, while listening to Get Boy Hey Girl by the Chemical Brothers. Satisfying.

systemd is so laughably bloated that it's almost a parody at this point.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-261-rc1

After a turbulent and consequential set of local and devolved elections, we’re hosting an evening to explore the stories hidden in the data.

“So what happened? The data behind the elections” will bring together people interested in politics, data, democracy and local government to dig into the results, patterns and questions emerging from the May elections.

🗓 Wednesday 27 May 2026

⏰ 6.30 - 8.30pm

📍 Altogether Otherwise, Manchester

www.tickettailor.com/events/opendatamanchestercic/2192252

If someone wants to leak me a copy of this app (either .apk or .ipa), please reach out on Signal — my username is zackwhittaker.1337 — and I would be keen to run this app through Burp Suite to see how it works. Happy to grant anonymity.

https://www.govexec.com/management/2026/05/white-house-ordering-agencies-place-its-new-app-all-employees-government-phones/413738/

(AP) — NATO allies and defense officials expressed bewilderment on Friday at U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement that he would send 5,000 U.S. troops to Poland just weeks after he ordered the same number of forces pulled out of Europe. https://apnews.com/article/nato-trump-troops-europe-poland-confusion-5ee39c29238cdee76c1780233cb6fddc

It's strange to see the moon without the cities

#microfiction

A books cartoon for @theguardian.com@bsky.brid.gy from a while back